South Shields (UK Parliament constituency)

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South Shields Borough constituency
South Shields shown within Tyne and Wear, and Tyne and Wear shown within England
Created:	1832
MP:	David Miliband
Party:	Labour
Type:	House of Commons
County:	Tyne and Wear
EP constituency:	North East England

South Shields is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.

Contents 1 Boundaries 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 Trivia 5 See also 6 References

[edit] Boundaries

The constituency covers the area of South Shields in South Tyneside in Tyne and Wear.

[edit] Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
1832		Constituency created
	1832	Robert Ingham	Whig
	1841	John Twizell Wawn	Whig
	1852	Robert Ingham	Whig
	1868	James Cochran Stevenson	Liberal
	1895	William Snowdon Robson, later Baron Robson	Liberal
	1910	Russell Rea	Liberal
	1916	Cecil Algernon Cochrane	Liberal
	1918	Joseph Havelock Wilson CBE	Coalition Liberal and Trade Unionist
	1922	Edward Augustus St Aubyn Harney KC	Liberal
	1929	James Chuter Ede	Labour
	1931	Harcourt Johnstone	Liberal
	1935	James Chuter Ede	Labour
	1964	Arthur Blenkinsop	Labour
	1979	David G. Clark	Labour
	2001	David Miliband	Labour

[edit] Elections

General Election 2005: South Shields
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Miliband	18,269	60.5	-2.7
	Liberal Democrat	Stephen Psallidas	5,957	19.7	+2.9
	Conservative	Richard Lewis	5,207	17.2	+0.3
	Independent	Nader Afshari-Naderi	773	2.6	+2.6
Majority			12,312	40.8
Turnout			30,206	42.2	-7.5
	Labour hold		Swing	-2.8

General Election 2001: South Shields
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Miliband	19,230	63.2	-8.3
	Conservative	Joanna Gardner	5,140	16.9	+2.3
	Liberal Democrat	Marshall Grainger	5,127	16.8	+8.0
	UK Independence	Alan Hardy	689	2.3	N/A
	Independent	Roger Nettleship	262	0.9	-0.1
Majority			14,090	46.3
Turnout			30,448	49.7	-12.9
	Labour hold		Swing

General Election 1997: South Shields
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Labour	David Clark	27,834	71.4	+11.6
	Conservative	Mark Hoban	5,681	14.6	-12.8
	Liberal Democrat	David Ord	3,429	4.0	-8.5
	Referendum Party	A. Lorriane	1,660	4.3	N/A
	Independent	I. Wilburn	374	1.0	N/A
Majority			22,153	56.8	+24.4
Turnout			38,978	62.6	-7.5
	Labour hold		Swing

[edit] Trivia

• South Shields is the only Parliamentary constituency in the United Kingdom never to have elected a Conservative Member of Parliament.
• With one exception (Arthur Blenkinsop), every South Shields MP since 1929 has been a cabinet member at some point in their career. Two of them, Chuter Ede (Home Secretary) and Miliband (Foreign Secretary), have held one of the great offices of state while MP for South Shields.

[edit] See also

• List of Parliamentary constituencies in Tyne and Wear

[edit] References

• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs.

Constituencies in North East England
Labour	Bishop Auckland | Blaydon | Blyth Valley | City of Durham | Darlington | Easington | Gateshead East and Washington West | Hartlepool | Houghton and Washington East | Jarrow | Middlesbrough | Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland | Newcastle upon Tyne Central | Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend | Newcastle upon Tyne North | North Durham | North Tyneside | North West Durham | Redcar | Sedgefield | South Shields | Stockton North | Stockton South | Sunderland North | Sunderland South | Tyne Bridge | Tynemouth | Wansbeck
Liberal Democrat	Berwick-upon-Tweed
Conservative	Hexham
North East European constituency: Labour (1) | Conservative (1) | Liberal Democrats (1)